Africa Arise!

Arise Africa! Arise!
To the gnawing facts
That stood by your door step
Revealing the sordid past
With its revisitutional nature
Missed identity, lost dignity

Arise! Africa Arise!
To the truthful realization
Of your past, lost in shambles
Africa Arise! To justice and equity
Trnsparency and brotherliness
Honesty and sence of belonging
Africa Arise! Arise oh compatriots
To defend our motherland

Arise! Africa Arise!
To rebuild your fragile nature
Of ruptured social fabrics
To resist natures burst of fury
And entomb the sceptic waters of grief
To retrieve the true African culture
Of love, caring, sharing, peacefulness...
Arise! To the melange of African cuisine
Achitectures of long enchantries Of peace embodiment.

Arise, Oh Africa!
To dethrone nascism
And break the neck apartheid
To say no to violence:
Intra- Inter communal or religious
Say no to purpoted slavery
Ancient and modern
Illegal diplomatic manouvers
Nasty, dirty, monstrous mind
Arise! To chase the scavengers away
From the coffers of your door
From the vegetations in your territory
From the boundaries of your land.
Arise! To leave their fiery cutlass
Of fury, petty killings and violence.
Arise! To clothe the exposed limbs
With quite unhappy concentration
To clothe the near nakedness
Of the daughters of eve that flaunts our eyes
Burn out the lust and emissaries
Of foreign nations Influencing our black nature

Arise Oh! Africa Arise!
To the clear sign of green vegetation
To the tom-tom sounds of the black race
To the gigantic traditional delicacy
And the natural scene that bids you Welcome.
Arise mother Africa, Arise!